AFM ’11: First Images from ‘Dead Before Dawn’

Half zombie, half demon, Christopher Lloyd (Piranha 3D) is part of Dead Before Dawn, the Canadian indie 3D horror film from Wango Films, now in post out of in Niagara Falls, Ontario.

The Emmy-award winning Lloyd will play the occult shop-running grandfather of Casper Galloway, played by Devon Bostick.

Dead Before Dawn, directed by April Mullen, “follows college kids that accidentally unleash an evil curse that causes people to kill themselves and turn into zombie demons, or zemons.”

The ensemble cast includes Martha MacIsaac, Brandon Jay McLaren, Brittany Allen, Kevin McDonald and Rossif Sutherland. The genre picture was written by Tim Doiron, who co-produces with Mullen.

With AFM kicking off tomorrow, we’ve now got the first ever images and sales art! Click the pic above for the full gallery. “CASPER GALLOWAY’S future is one giant question mark. With only two weeks until College graduation he still lives with his mother, is indecisive to a fault and is one credit away from failing. But just when Casper thinks things couldn’t get any worse, he and his friends accidentally unleash a curse that causes people to kill themselves and turn into Zombie Demons, aka Zemons.

Armed with a slew of homemade weapons and a Winnebago, the team races through the night, killing Zemons and fighting time, frantically searching for a way to reverse the curse. But as the Zemon army starts to overpower the team, Casper finds himself with no choice but to face his fears and become the unlikeliest of heroes. Will Casper be able to reverse the curse and save the world, or will he and all his friends be “Dead Before Dawn?”

Shaun of the Dead meets The Goonies in this coming-of-age adventure story that puts a whole new spin on the comedy horror genre.“